About “Pop Style”

“Pop Style” is a Jamaican term meaning “ballin’” or “showing off.” The term was famously used on Althea and Donna’s “Uptown Top Ranking”, a Reggae one hit wonder which reached number 1 on the UK charts in 1978.

Jay didn’t really do a verse. Really, I just was trying to get ‘Ye on it first. ‘Ye just kind of sent it to me like that, ‘Jay kinda just did my first few lines for me and that’s how we flexed it.’ … Of course people want to hear Jay Z rap, so hearing him do two lines might be frustrating to a certain audience … That just landed in my lap. I just dealt with it accordingly. It didn’t play out how I wanted it to as far as business or whatever goes. So I figured it would be easier to go with my version. I’ve expressed my admiration and respect for Jay countless times. Sometimes we just fall on opposite sides of the spectrum. It’s always mutual respect but sometimes it has to be from afar.

What have the artists said about the song?

Jay thought about it and out of respect for Meek Mill he ain’t want to be on the track. And I said ‘look, I’ll call Drake, I’ll call Meek, we gotta squash this, we gotta make people have fun.’ But then it went out of that category, it went into some Tidal, some political shit, some shit about percentages on songs.